Why was my Stanford/UCLA post taken down?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by lpbreeze

If a post is spam or if there is some good reason then sure take it down but mine wasn't. Honestly, I don't know why people get so upset here when there is criticism of officials. They made bad calls because I believe they got caught up in the excitement of the last couple minutes and UCLA had momentum. The other parts of the game were fine.

Your post wasn't targeted. The entire thread was deleted because the moderator felt it had degenerated into something counterproductive to the purposes of this board.

I haven't seen the game, nor have I seen replays of any particular calls that you may think were wrong. I will say, however, that the part I highlighted in red above is even more wrong-headed than your insinuation that the last couple minutes of regulation were horribly officiated.

You're either attacking their competence or their integrity. Which is it?

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

You're either attacking their competence or their integrity. Which is it?

Couldn't it just be he's drumming up interest for his camp?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

Couldn't it just be he's drumming up interest for his camp?

It's possible. He's gonna need to do some serious marketing at those prices.

[Bad Zebra]

Just a guess...but I'll bet this thread disappears as well. It's just taking up valuable server space.

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

It's possible. He's gonna need to do some serious marketing at those prices.

How about if he throws in a 14" carrot?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

How about if he throws in a 14" carrot?

You can't get a 14" carrot from a 1" carrot person.

Simple mathematics.

[lpbreeze]

I'm not attacking the refs- I'm pointing out that refs sometimes join in with a team is on a roll. I don't think they are doing it on purpose but when a team starts making mistakes and one team gets on a roll sometimes calls will go their way. I don't see anything wrong with pointing that out and I saw it yesterday during the game when Stanford lost an 11 point lead. A lot of that was their fault as I said in my original post. Oh and the replays showed the refs made 3 bad calls in the last two minutes. One I don't blame on them because it did look like a foul but only with the on court cam that it was shown not to be a foul. The second no one was even touched. And the third happened with 3 seconds to go and it was a clean block but it was called a foul. Everyone makes mistakes but I'm just saying that the refs made calls they might not have had if UCLA was not on a roll.

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my point was that in games when one team starts getting on a roll sometimes the officials start favoring the stronger team. It usually won't last and once the other team gets a few baskets it goes back. It doesn't happen a lot. I've seen it before in Duke and UNC games many times and high school games especially.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by lpbreeze

I'm not attacking the refs- I'm pointing out that refs sometimes join in with a team is on a roll. I don't think they are doing it on purpose but when a team starts making mistakes and one team gets on a roll sometimes calls will go their way.

I get it now. You're denigrating their competence.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by lpbreeze

I'm not attacking the refs- I'm pointing out that refs sometimes join in with a team is on a roll.

my point was that in games when one team starts getting on a roll sometimes the officials start favoring the stronger team.

We know what your point is. Our point is that you're in the wrong place to make it. You need to find a fanboy site. You'd fit right in there.

You don't fit in here.

You can critique a call, mechanics, etc. We all miss or screw up a call. We try to learn from those mistakes by discussing them. You're not doing that. All you're doing is questioning the integrity of a D1 crew. And you see nothing wrong with that. That's very telling.

[rockyroad]

Originally Posted by lpbreeze

I'm not attacking the refs- I'm pointing out that refs sometimes join in with a team is on a roll. I don't think they are doing it on purpose but when a team starts making mistakes and one team gets on a roll sometimes calls will go their way. I don't see anything wrong with pointing that out and I saw it yesterday during the game when Stanford lost an 11 point lead. A lot of that was their fault as I said in my original post. Oh and the replays showed the refs made 3 bad calls in the last two minutes. One I don't blame on them because it did look like a foul but only with the on court cam that it was shown not to be a foul. The second no one was even touched. And the third happened with 3 seconds to go and it was a clean block but it was called a foul. Everyone makes mistakes but I'm just saying that the refs made calls they might not have had if UCLA was not on a roll.

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You most certainly are attacking the refs...on one hand you say that they "got caught up in the excitement" and then you say that Stanford started making mistakes. If Stanford is making mistakes, then of course calls will go against them...and saying that officials "get caught up" is attacking their abilities...

Then you start saying they "missed" calls...says who? You? So your judgement is now better than that of an experienced D-1 crew? Hard to believe...